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Huh. I thought for sure someone else would be using my scheme.

LAN computers are all Tolkien swords: sting, orcrist, gurthang, glamdring, etc. If I run out of swords, I’ll start adding other weapons: aeglost, the spear; dailir, the arrow. We don’t get a lot of named battle axes, which I always thought weird; I’d think dwarves of all people would forge legendary axes, and certainly name them.

My WiFi and VPN networks are forests in Middle Earth: fangorn, bindbole, dimholt, lothlorien, etc. The only exception is my LAN itself which is… “lan”. Because short.

My cloud VPSes are named after Greek Titans: hyperion, phaethusa, tethys, etc.

Mobile devices have whatever names they come with, because they’re so ephemeral.

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Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I like your schema. I’ve used something similar. My hosts have always been sci-fi space/time ships/stations, user accounts are characters from or Captain’s of said vessels. Over the years I’ve had a TARDIS, Serenity, Moya, Out of Bands II, Galactica, Millennium Falcon, Rocinante, etc. It’s usually whatever I happen to be discovering or binging at the time I setup the machine. For nearly a decade the TARDIS was my server/NAS because it was bigger on the inside that survived through several generations of smaller devices like laptops and raspberry Pi’s named after smaller lighter vessels like Serenity and Rocinante.

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- sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Thanks! I’ve learned in jobs over the years that there are two good ways to choose names:
  
  Descriptive acronyms: AppDev01Loc01. They’re useful in business and large teams, and dull as shit. But practical.
  
  Mythos with a lot of variation. Characters from your favorite novel is usually bad, because you quickly run out of names. Mythos are usually good, dinosaurs… anything with a lot of variation.
  
  “Sci fi starships” is a great one! Lots of source material there; the categories basically fall out by themselves. That’s a great choice.
  
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Exhume5947@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
In the past, I used Gimli’s family tree for server names. My main server was called “Thorin”. I think I had used Thrain and Gloin.

These days I use Union generals from the civil war:

Sherman - NAS, media server, nextcloud Thomas - reverse proxy, adguard1 Ellsworth - arr stack Sheridan - backup server dockerhost01 - because naming your servers after their function makes a lot more sense.

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- sxan@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  In the past, I used Gimli’s family tree for server names.
  
  Oh, that’s good.
  
  Middle Earth is a great source for this stuff, b/c Tolkien filled out the world like a historian.
  
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